Oracle E-Business Suite Financials R12: A Functionality Guide

Expand your existing knowledge of Oracle E-Business Suite and dig deep into the many functionalities of the financial modules. This easy-to-follow guide will help you understand and get started quickly with EBS Financials.

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Oracle E-Business Suite Financials R12: A Functionality Guide

Mohan IyerApril 2012

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Expand your existing knowledge of Oracle E-Business Suite and dig deep into the many functionalities of the financial modules. This easy-to-follow guide will help you understand and get started quickly with EBS Financials.

Book Details

ISBN 139781849680622

Paperback336 pages

Book Description

Oracle EBS Financials provide organizations with solutions to a wide range of long- and short-term accounting system issues. Oracle E-Business Suite is the most comprehensive suite of integrated, global business applications that provides the most complete, integrated business intelligence portfolio

Oracle E-Business Suite: A Functionality Guide – helps in binding the two skill sets together – knowledge of the software and the business knowledge of the user.

This guide contains everything you need to know to maximize your implementation payback or return on investment.

This book starts with an overview of Oracle E-Business Suite R12 where we cover the foundation features of Oracle Financial Management modules which include Navigation within Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12, Multiple Organization Access Control (MOAC), key aspects of Application Security and much more. The book then covers in detail General Ledger, Sub Ledger Accounting, Assets, Cash Management, Treasury, E-Business Tax, and much more.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Overview of Oracle E-Business Suite

ERP and Oracle E-Business Suite

Integration and process flows

Shared entities

Fundamentals of flexfields

Fundamentals of organizations

Application security

Navigation

Summary

Chapter 2: General Ledger

Primary and secondary ledgers

Accounting Setup Manager

Ledger and Data Access Sets

Journal entries

Parents, Rollup Groups, and Summary Accounts

Budgeting

Multi-currency

Consolidations

Intercompany

Financial reporting

Oracle Web ADI

Summary

Chapter 3: Subledger Accounting (SLA)

Controls

Accounting Policy Management

Additional functions

Important SLA profile options

Summary

Chapter 4: Inventory

Organizations

Items

Transactions

Cost management

Summary

Chapter 5: Purchasing

Supplier management

Approvals

Requisitions

RFQ and quotations

Purchase orders

Receiving

Accruals

Summary

Chapter 6: Payables

Suppliers—Payables specific

Transactions

Payments

Summary

Chapter 7: Assets

Configuration

Transactions

Tax Books

Depreciation

Capital budgeting

Accounting

Summary

Chapter 8: Cash Management

Configuration

Cash Management integration

Cash forecasting

Managing bank account balances

Cash positioning

Cash transactions

Summary

Chapter 9: Treasury

Configuration

Transactions

Equities

Hedging

Bank balance management

Settlements

Accounting actions

Summary

Chapter 10: Order Management

Items

Trading Community Architecture

Customers

Salespersons

Price lists

Order capture/entry

Order actions

Shipping execution

Accounting

Summary

Chapter 11: Receivables

iReceivables

E-Business Tax

Trading Community Architecture

Receivables configuration

Customers

Transactions

Receipts

Collections

Document printing

Accounting

Summary

Chapter 12: Credit Management

Payment terms

Credit check rules

Credit checking

Credit Management

Summary

Chapter 13: E-Business Tax (EBTax)

Overview

Configuration

Managing migrated data

Tax content service providers

Using E-Business Tax

Summary

Chapter 14: Oracle Workflow

Major features and definitions

Workflow usage

Notifications

Workflow Builder

Business events

Summary

Chapter 15: Approval Management Engine (AME)

Transaction types

Item classes

Attributes

Approval rules

Business Analyst Dashboard

Summary

What You Will Learn

Master all the Financial modules and have a look at modules that relate to Order Fulfilment.

Understand why the General Ledger is the core of the Oracle E-Business Suite and how Sub Ledger Accounting complements the General Ledger

Get an overview of Oracle Asset Management

Master the concept of Procurement and its related processes including the definition of Suppliers and how to manage the activity of procuring goods for the enterprise.

Review the functionality that is contained in the functional tasks of the receivables and collections group

Drive through the functional requirement of Credit and Collections group

Authors

Mohan Iyer

Mohan Iyer, has more than 20 years experience in system implementations with the last 15 years implementing Oracle Financials. He has a strong background in Finance and Accounting – having these as his major subjects in college. He has an Accounting degree from the University of Bombay (Mumbai), India.
His skill-set includes the full range of financial applications in Oracle Applications and related modules where there is a financial impact. His broad range of skills has helped him with his implementation of - Record to Report, Procure to Pay and Quote to Cash processes, with re-engineering and crystallizing processes during implementations. His tenure as a consultant and a manager of financial applications in corporate America, brings to the table a wide range of experience with financial processes that include inter-company, multi-currency, statutory needs and process flows to manage operational changes that will lead to efficiency and appropriate accounting results. He has been a board member of the NorCal OAUG and Multi-National SIG and is the coordinator of the GL SIG and has presented various papers at OAUG and related conferences.
He lives in California with his wife and two kids. He can be contacted at mohan@fscpsolutions.com or 408 859 4484.

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